Roman Rabinovich

Dubbed ‘a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word’ (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich is also a composer and visual artist with a repertoire spanning six centuries, from Byrd to Boulez and beyond. He has won critical acclaim for interpretations of the music of Haydn. In summer 2016 he embarked upon the Haydn Project, encompassing recital series of Haydn’s complete keyboard sonatas; these have included cycles at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals in UK and at ChamberFest Cleveland in the US; he has also appeared at the Herbstgold Festival in Eisenstadt, and curated a three-concert Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall in 2022. The first two volumes of his complete Haydn Cycle on First Hand Records have been released to critical acclaim, with BBC Music Magazine noting ‘the elegance and liveliness of Rabinovich’s keyboard style are, indeed, a joy to listen to, and his unfailing musicality and inventiveness allows him to penetrate to the expressive heart of Haydn’s world.’

Together with his wife, violinist Diana Cohen, Roman Rabinovich is co-director of ChamberFest Cleveland as well as the newly inaugurated ChamberFest West festival in Calgary. During the 2020-21 global pandemic, the pair gave a very successful series of free weekly concerts from their front yard in Calgary, Canada.

Roman Rabinovich) made his Israel Philharmonic debut under Zubin Mehta aged 10, having immigrated to Israel a year before from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, he went on to earn his Masters degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald. He was among the first of three young pianists to be championed by Sir András Schiff for his ‘Building Bridges’ series.

• • • J.S. Bach:

  Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
  Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

  • • Bartók:

  Concerto No.1, Sz.83, BB91
  Concerto No. 2, Sz..95, BB101

  • • Beethoven:

  Concerto No 1, in C major op 15
  Concerto No 2, in B flat major op 19
  Concerto No 3, in c minor op37
  Concerto No 4, in G major op58
  Concerto No 5, in E flat major op73
  Choral Fantasy, op80

  • • Berg:

  Chamber Concerto

  • • Berstein:

  Symhphony No.2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’

  • • Brahms:

  Concerto No 1, in D minor op15

  • • Chopin:

  Concerto No 1, in E minor op11
  Concerto No 2 in F minor op21
  Fantasy on Polish airs, op13

  • • Dvorak:

  Piano Concerto in G minor, op33

  • • Franck:

  Symphonic Variations, M 46

  • • Grieg:

  Concerto in A minor op16

  • • Haydn:

  Concerto in D major

  • • Liszt:

  Concerto No 1, in E flat major
  Concerto No 2, in A major

  • • Lutosławski:

  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

  • • Martinů:

  Concertino for Piano Trio and String Orchestra, H.232

  • • Mendelssohn:

  Double concerto for violin and piano in D minor
  Concerto No 1, in G minor op 25
  Concerto No 2, in D minor op 40
  Concerto in A minor, MWV O2

  • • Mozart:

  Concerto in B flat major K 238
  Concerto in E flat major K 271 “Jeunehomme”
  Concerto in A major K.414
  Concerto in F major K.459
  Concerto in D minor K.466
  Concerto in C major K 467
  Concerto in E flat minor K.482
  Concerto in A major K.488
  Concerto in C minor K.491
  Concerto in C major K 503
  Concerto in B flat major K.595

  • • Prokofiev:

  Concerto No 1, in D-flat major op10
  Concerto No 2, in G minor op16
  Concerto No 3, in C major op26
  Concerto No 5, G major op55

  • • Rachmaninov:

  Concerto No 2, in C minor op18
  Concerto No 3, in D minor op30
  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

  • • Saint-Saens:

  Concerto No 2, in G minor op22
  Concerto No 5 in F major, op103

  • • Schubert / Liszt:

  Wanderer Fantasy

  • • Schumann:

  Concerto in A minor, op.54
  Introduction and Allego Appasionato op.92

  • • Shchedrin:

  Concerto No 2

  • • Shostakovich:

  Concerto No 1, in C minor for piano, trumpet and orchestra op35
  Concerto No.2 in F major, op102

  • • Stravinsky:

  Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

  • • Tchaikovsky:

  Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
  Concerto No 2, in G major op44

  • • Yusupov:

  Concerto “Intimo” 2007